Student- Centered Learning —current
edited 2025 Western Governors University
Instructor: Erica Hunter
E. Danielle Brott
Course Description
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, In the 8-week course The Role of the “BSN Nurse in Promoting
Community Health,” the learner will benefit by learning new key
concepts weekly, such as ‘Introduction to Community Health,’ ‘Implicit
Bias,’ ‘Communicable Disease,’ ‘Chronic Health Conditions,’ and
more. Weekly concepts are meant to promote understanding of
essential nursing topics. This course aims to increase the learner’s
knowledge of patient-centered care, understand the lifestyle
implications related to health, acknowledge the broad impact of
chronic conditions and illnesses, and be able to coach patients
through preventative health decisions, chronic disease
maintenance, and emergency preparedness and response
management.
Although the topics are framed within the course of community health,
the topics of implicit bias, chronic and communicable disease, and
emergency management will be valuable through inpatient and
outpatient learning and throughout several nursing specialties such
as acute care, emergency nursing, obstetrics, and ICU care. Including
implicit bias and social determinants of care will set the foundation for
person-centered care that fosters crucial bonds for the patient and
provider team. (Shaban et al., 2024)
Course Cultivation
Week one of this course opens with ‘Introduction to Community
Health,’ where the learner will understand the scope of community
, health nursing. The instructor will discuss the course objectives,
syllabus, and
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